- Posted by
Sam
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June 4, 2008
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May 19th, Joseph Lieberman which is a US Senator from Connecticut asked Google to remove internet videos produced by terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda from its YouTube site.
"Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training," - Senator Lieberman.
"YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and amplified voice, despite military setbacks or successful operations by the law enforcement and intelligence communities."
Google responded with:
"(W)e examined and ended up removing a number of videos from the site, primarily because they depicted gratuitous violence, advocated violence, or used hate speech. Most of the videos, which did not contain violent or hate speech content, were not removed because they do not violate our Community Guidelines."
On this note, Google continues to allow organizations that are deemed Foreign Terrorist Organizations to post videos that are viewed by citizens in the United States.
Update: Google currently still allows videos to be viewed by United States citizens.
On this topic, The Thailand monarchy asked Google to remove a clip that insulted its monarchy of 80 years. Google removed the video at the request of the monarchy.
Everyone that has the internet knows about China’s great Firewall and knows the Google edits their search index to remove sites that China does not allow.
“One mans Terrorist is another mans Freedom Fighter” – Anonymous.
To understand Google, you need to understand their mission. “Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Google by their own Mission Statement should not be aiding China in removing links, it should not be removing video’s from YouTube for Thailand and it should not be removing video’s via request from a senator.
Here is where Google is a Hypocrite. Google has removed links and videos for both China and Thailand at their request, but has not removed video’s and links at the United States request. In this act, they support U.S. deemed terrorists within the United States.
They can argue that “One mans Terrorist is another mans Freedom Fighter”, but if they are willing to do it for another country, why not the U.S.? If they don’t do it at the request of the U.S., then why should they do it at the request of China or Thailand.
Do you see the Hypocrisy? I ask you to blog about it and let your voices be heard.
BTW, I am not slamming Google, I just ask them to stop falling short of their true Mission!
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- Posted by
sam
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May 14, 2008
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Before Russia fell, it was a powerful and amazing communist country, but lets get one thing straight. Russia was not able to support it self without Serfs. Serfs worked as the entire lower class and were released in the 90's because Russia was not able to sustain it self and wanted democratic reform. The reform has come and gone says some analysts. Russian Ex-President rolled back democratic reforms into the old age Russia. People are fleeing the country for a better life and they are finding it in Ukraine. Ukraine is still highly Democratic and moving more so than before.
Russia itself is losing civilians because of many reasons, but the top two include a Birth Rate lower than the current population. Russians are not replacing them selves. That has been seen for many years now and Russians are trying to fix this problem by declaring a national holiday to go home and make babies. Russian towns are giving prizes to couples that have kids on certain days or the amount of kids one couple has. Things are getting worse than that over there. Now IHT just did an article about how Russians are fleeing the motherland for a more democratic one. They are leaving for Ukraine in an attempt to make a better life for them selves that they can't see under the current Russian rule. This is an example of why the mexicans are leaving mexico for a better country and better way of life. They leave for the United States and leave mexico without the labor force that is needed to sustain a country economically anymore. The exact same thing will happen in the Ukraine. Russia will lose to Ukraines democratic reforms and its willingness for Free Speech. Because, what does Russia do to artist that talk bad about the government? It puts them into jail. So the artists request Ukraine work visa's and Ukraine accepts them indefinitely. Ukraine will profit from this and Russia will again lose more of its population.
So the question begs, how long will Russia last? If the Government keeps pushing back Democratic reforms and keeps allowing its population stop replacing them selves, they will lose faster over time. The country will fall inevitably if it doesn't change its current course of action.
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